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2006-11-11T05:54:00.000-08:00

Here are a few pictures of Autumn in Northwestern Vermont. It wasn't spectacular foliage this year I was told but better than I've ever seen.

And another one...

Out of Africa

2005-07-02T15:17:00.000-07:00

In case people weren't aware of my situation, I left South Africa early (very early). The story is long and doesn't really need to be repeated. Sorry to be sketchy, but everything is fine and everything works out for a reason so now I get to relax and spend the next three weeks doing whatever I want. So far that has meant playing tennis and standing in line at the Verizon store because my phone decided it would stop working. So you get a one year warrenty on your phone when you get it BUT you need to have it for two years to get a free new one. So the phone happens to work fine for about 13 to 14 months and then boom, it craps out and you are stuck with $50 to get that phone fixed/replaced. And the best part is since I can no longer do anything on my phone it would be impossible for me to manually retrieve the saved phone numbers. I don't know any phone numbers anymore, I just know people's names when they call me and when I call them. Verizon has though of everything though. For just $10 you can pay a man in the store to plug your old phone into a computer and then plug your new phone in...the process takes about 45 seconds. It must be the largest profiet maker for the company. I remember in high school doing the same thing when it was a "free service to our customers". Even the guy in the store laughed at me when he did it saying, "Hey man, you gotta have the numbers and the company's gotta make money". Yikes...

In a completely unrelated verizon wireless happening, Sasank said he saw Saunders working in the Lehigh Valley mall Verizon store. He then told me, "Saunder's has no idea how to work retail..." Good times.

Jon Schwab

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Out of Africa